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iFive: Baidu Promotes Piracy, Penthouse Goes 3-D TV, Windows 8 for Tablets, Gmail Error Fixed With Tape, Twitter Ads Regulated

Tuesday's rocked around again, so let us help you get to grips with the early news: here's iFive.READ»

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iFive: Google Versus Groupon, iPad 2 in April, Digital Music Sales Slow, 3-D TV and Health, TV Sharing's Anti-Social Angle

Friday's early news, prepped to give you a heads-up on the innovation and tech gossip:READ»

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Internet TV Wars: Yahoo and Samsung Step Up to Google and Sony

Yahoo and Korea's Samsung aren't going to concede defeat in the Net TV game to Google and Sony with the new Google TV: The two are going to sell Yahoo-connected TVs in 26 more nations.READ»

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Buttons, Buttons Everywhere: Sony Demos One of Google TV's Weaknesses

The tech world's just digging in to Google TV, now that Sony's units are in the limelight. But one fact is glaringly obvious from the unit's remote: This is not a unit for your Granny. Or possibly your parents. And that might be Google TV's undoing.READ»

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Toshiba Debuts First Glasses-Free 3-D HDTV for Consumers

Toshiba's just unveiled a range of glasses-free HDTVs, which it's saying are the first units of their type to be aimed at the consumer. Will Jo Public leap at the chance to watch 3-D movies without specs?READ»

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Consumers Are Excited About 3D-TVs at Home--Until They Try One

For a solid two years now, TV manufacturers have been insisting that 3D-TVs at home are the next big thing. According to a recent survey, consumers agree--until they actually try one out.READ»

Panasonic, Skype Want You to Talk to Your TV, for Google-Rivaling VoIP Plan

Well what'd you know? As soon as we get interested about Google's rumored TV tie-up with Sony and its potential plans for Skype rivalry, up pops Panasonic. It's just announced a deal with Skype to bring VoIP to your Panny TV. The new ...READ»

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Google's TV Ambitions to Get Limelight This Week?

Maybe Apple should've spent a little more time tinkering with its "hobby" project, Apple TV--Google, Sony, and Intel are jockeying to steal its position at the heart of your digital entertainment system. This week they'll launch a ...READ»

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DuPont Tweaks Printing Tech to Make Cheaper Screens: 50-Inch OLED TVs Here We Come

We've heard so very much hype about OLED tech that it's slightly disappointing to see how few devices have an OLED screen so far. It's because the manufacturing is tricky and expensive--but this is something DuPont thinks it's ...READ»

WiGig Wireless Alliance Targets the Dusty Rat's Nest of Cables Behind Your TV

Today the specifications have been finalized on yet another bit of future-facing wireless tech: WiGig. As its name suggests, it's all about gigabit speeds over the airwaves, and you'll care about it 'cause it may make HDMI cabling ...READ»

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HDTV Is Good Enough for the Octopuses

Forget 3-D television; HDTV is good enough for discerning octopuses, so it must be good enough for us. Researchers at Macquarie University in Australia found that gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) placed in a tank and exposed to ...READ»

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Guard Your Living Rooms: Google and Its A-Team Are Coming to TV

Google has assembled a crack team of associates to launch a full-scale invasion into the living room. Yes, GoogleTV is real--or at least it will be soon.READ»

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Microrings: The Tech to Make Everything Work Wirelessly?

Most things gadgety are seemingly wirelessly enabled in one way or another, and it's pretty clear that soon everything will be. Now physicists have worked out a way to make it all happen: Microrings, which are tiny radio systems. ...READ»

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Encoding HD Faster with Kulabyte

Kulabyte. Blake Wenzel, co-founder, shows how Kulabyte makes encoding technology for HD TV stations that works faster than others and can fit onto a standard laptop. This is part of our tour of interesting San Antonio, TX, tech ...READ»

Exclusive: Seagate Introduces New HD Media Storage and Sharing Device

Problem: your relatives just got a new HDTV and you want to show off some videos or photos you shot on their screen. Question: what’s the easiest way to get your photos, video, or other media onto their screen? Solution: Seagate ...READ»

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Your Tech Is on Fire: Porn Flirts With the 3-D TV Revolution

One of the biggest categories at CES last week was 3-D tech in TVs and computer monitors. And with news from the Adult Entertainment show, running simultaneously in Las Vegas, here's a fun question: Will porn drive 3-D's ...READ»

Discovery, IMAX, and Sony's 3-D TV Channel to Compete With ESPN's 3-D World Cup

Dust off your polarized glasses, 3-D broadcast TV is coming. Discovery, IMAX, and Sony announced a joint-venture 3-D network on Tuesday. The network is set to launch in 2011 and will be the first 24-hour 3-D network. Distributed by ...READ»

RED Scarlet Officially Ready to Bite at Canon, Nikon's DSLR Heels

We love technology here at Fast Company. And we're big on design too. Which is partly what makes RED's digital cameras quite so awesome, since they mix the two exquisitely. And the newly official RED Scarlet may even change the DSLR ...READ»

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Entertainment

To brighten up your dreary winter's morning, here's something to tickle the dreamer inside you: Exactly how might we be enjoying our digital entertainment in the future? Three news pieces today point to different TV-based ways to ...READ»

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Apple Finally Unveils Its Expensive 27-Inch Television

After the rumors, patents and supposition, Apple's just updated its lineup of computers and included a surprise: a 27-inch TV monster. Okay, it's actually an iMac, but it's quite definitely a move in the televisual direction. Today's ...READ»